[Mailman-Developers] User id - integer or UUID?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 01, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Andrew Stuart wrote:

>I’m going to store as string representation of the integer as I don’t want to
>be dealing with databases or anything else that makes a distinction between
>different types and lengths of integer.

That makes sense to me.  Since Aurelien was okay with the status quo, I never
did make the change described in that archive message.

>Ideally the identifier would match the core internal identifier which is UUID
>but since userid-as-UUID is not seen from the REST API side of things then
>I’ll act like that concept does not exist and hope I’m not making things more
>confused around user id.

Yep, for now I think we'll keep the int-as-user-id concept, and it will be
converted internally to a UUID.  If/when we change that I'll have to keep
backward compatibility with that API anyway.

Cheers,
-Barry